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Full name | Oksana Serikova |
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Born | Amvrosiivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 11 June 1985
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | Donshvsm |
Oksana Serikova (also Oxana Serikova, Ukrainian: Оксана Серікова; born June 11, 1985) is a Ukrainian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] She helped out her Ukrainian team to break a national record time of 4:05.56 in the women's medley relay at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. [2] She is also an eighth-place finalist in the 50 m freestyle at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in the same location as four years before. [3]
Serikova qualified as a lone swimmer for Ukraine in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 25.56 from the EDF Swimming Open in Paris, France. [4] [5] Serikova scorched her way to sixth place and thirty-second overall in heat nine of the evening prelims with a time of 25.65, failing to advance further to the semifinals. [6]